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Who won December's biggest contracts?

Year ends on high note

By Mark Hoover

Jan 08, 2014

2013 ends on a high note, with December seeing some of the highest activity all year, with 62 contracts being reported.

When the year began, contract activity was very low, with just 13 contracts in February. From February until July, however, the number of reported contracts rose each month, hitting 62 in July. August saw a modest drop with 57 reported contracts, and then activity spiked again in September with 67 reported contracts.

October, during which the government shutdown occurred, understandably saw a considerable dip in contract activity, with 44 reported contracts. November was worse, with 41, as the marketplace slowly got back on its feet.

December's 62 is an optimistic note to end a very difficult year.

To make the list, you had to have won a contract worth $135 million or above.

The Government Accountability Office has ruled against Serco Inc.’s bid protest of a $135 million Army contract award to Jacobs Technology for logistics support.

Serco held the incumbent contract to support the Army Logistics Civil Augmentation program known as LOGCAP. The company held the contract since 2007 and had earned about $165 million in task orders for support services such as program office support, program manager support and contracting support.

BAE Systems and Lockheed Martin each won contracts with the U.S. Navy to provide engineering support services to the U.S. and British navies.

BAE's contract is worth $171.4 million; Lockheed's is $114.2 million. The contracts cover a variety of engineering services including support for nuclear weapons. The work includes logistics, testing, evaluation, configuration management and documentation.

The companies will support the Common Missile Compartment program and assure that as the concept is developed it will be compatible with the Trident II submarine in areas such as weapon systems coordination, class engineering, configuration management, logistics engineering, network development and maintenance and facility engineering and design support.

HP Enterprise Services has won a $180 million to continue to manage and enhance the Ohio Medicaid Information Technology System and transform the hardware that it runs on.

Under the contract, HP will ensure that the Medicaid system is flexible, scalable and stable. The company will also support federal policy changes, including the Affordable Care Act and state requirements, the company said in a release.

Lockheed Martin has won more than $200 million in options with the Air Force to complete production of its fifth and sixth next-generation Global Positioning System satellites, or GPS III.

The GPS III program replaces GPS satellites in orbit while improving capability to meet the evolving demands of the military, commercial and civilian users.

The company won a contract in February to provide long lead parts for a second set of four GPS III space vehicles, and this new contract provides funding to complete the first two satellites in this order. Full production funding for the next two space vehicles is expected in 2014, the company said in a release.

Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Training won a $574.5 million contract with the Navy to produce the Aegis Weapon System MK7 equipment sets in support of the DDG 51 Shipbuilding Program, as well as an option for Aegis Ashore Missile Defense System, Host Nation Poland, and engineering services.

Boeing Co. won a $750 million contract with the Air Force to provide integrated engineering services for the B-1 weapon system to include detailed design engineering, maintenance engineering and systems engineering support, computer network support and technical analysis.

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency has tapped seven contractors to help combat weapons of mass destruction under a $4 billion contract.

The winners are:

Alion Science and Technology

Applied Research Associates

Engility Corp.

Exelis Inc.

Northrop Grumman

Raytheon

Leidos

The contract, called the Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction Research and Technology Development, is for research and development that aims to provide scientific and technological solutions to meet the Defense Department’s non-proliferation, counterproliferation and consequence management objectives, the department said in a release.

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